Are you missing Pushing Daisies as much as I am? Maybe it’s due to the fact that I’ve recently been catching up creator Bryan Fuller’s first show, Dead Like Me, but I’ve been feeling the sting of Daisies‘ absence a little extra lately and I’m anxious for those last three unaired episodes to come to us. Well, we finally have an answer as to when that will be.

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It’s been several weeks since the last episode of Pushing Daisies. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having my share of whimsy withdrawals. ABC has left fans of Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money hanging by not only cancelling the shows, but also by keeping us in the dark about when the remaining episodes of these shows might finally air.

Well, the good news is we now have something of an answer. The bad news is that it’s months away! Word on the street is that the completed episodes of these shows could air as late as summer. ARGH!!!!!

In other news, the women of Daisies are setting fans’ hearts aflutter by planting the seeds of speculation about bringing the show to the big screen. This is a familiar rumor, having hit the mill after almost any show with a cult following finds its way to the chopping block prematurely (e.g., Arrested Development, Veronica Mars). My knee-jerk reaction to these things is always to be a little suspect. A film does not a season of television make. Things always have to be sacrificed to fit it to the format. After all, my love of Daisies had very little to do with the weekly stories being especially captivating (thought they could be), it had more to do with the glorious escapism of spending an hour in that world with those characters. I’m just not that convinced that they can put together a plot captivating enough to fill two hours. Still, my heart thirsts for more Daisies and Joss Whedon certainly proved to us that film spin-offs of cancelled television shows can, indeed, be something very worth watching.

I worked through my grief about the cancellation of Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone earlier today in a blog post for Time Out Chicago. I think I’ve moved on to the second stage of grief, because all I can think to say at this point is:

FUCK YOU, ABC!!!

*clears throat*

Sorry…I just needed to get that out.

I hope they’ve got a red stapler waiting for him. Because you know, he might set the building on fire.

He’s going to be such a great fit on that show, I can’t wait to see it. And you know, before he was everyone’s favorite Office Space character, he was in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Yes, that’s right, I connect just about any entertainment story to Buffy…and I do.

OMG, Stephen Root is joining Pushing Daisies!

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Sources confirm to me exclusively that Root, also fondly remembered as NewsRadio”s billionaire boss, Jimmy James, has booked a four-episode arc on Daisies. His character “has a shared history with both Ned’s dad and Chuck’s dad,” explains series creator Bryan Fuller. “He stirs up a lot of hullabaloo for everyone, particularly Aunts Lily and Vivian.”

[From Exclusive: 'Pushing Daisies' Takes (Stephen) Root | Pushing Daisies | Ausiello Files | EW.com]

Mary Ann Marie Beetle, a character from the “Muffin Buffalo” episode of “Wonderfalls,” will turn up in a season-two episode of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” series mastermind Bryan Fuller told the ComicCon crowd Saturday.

[From PUSHING DAISIES Plots WONDERFALLS Crossover!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.]

This makes me happy. I loved me some Wonderfalls (available on DVD, go Netflix it now, GO!). It was quirky, it was fun, it was slightly surreal…a lot like creator Bryan Fuller’s newest show, Pushing Daisies. Fuller has revealed plans to send a character from an episode of Wonderfalls, who was played by the wonderful character actress Beth Grant, for a visit to Ned’s Pie Hole. But while Ms. Beetle’s arrival is something for any Wonderfalls fan to be happy about, an even more giddy-inducing tidbit is that Fuller stated he would love to have the show’s snarky main character Jaye Tyler pop up on Daisies, as well. Of course it would be an interesting crossover of TV universes considering that Daisies lead Ned is played by Lee Pace, the same actor that played her brother.

But we can jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Other news from the ComicCon panel is that David Arquette has been cast in a new role. Between him on Daisies and his wife and Scrubs that Hollywood couple is certainly making some good post-Dirt choices.